Dead Again
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| Directed by | Kenneth Branagh |
| Written by | Scott Frank |
| Produced by | Lindsay Doran |
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| Cinematography | Matthew F. Leonetti |
| Edited by | Peter E. Berger |
| Music by | Patrick Doyle |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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| Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Linguistic communication | English |
| Upkeep | $15 1000000[ citation needed ] |
| Box function | $38 million (U.s.a.)[1] |
Dead Over again is a 1991 American neo-noir[2] romantic thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Scott Frank. Information technology stars Branagh and Emma Thompson, with Andy García, Derek Jacobi, Hanna Schygulla, Wayne Knight, and Robin Williams appearing in supporting roles.
Dead Again was a moderate box office success and received positive reviews from the majority of critics. Jacobi was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Function, and Patrick Doyle, who composed the film's music, was nominated for a Golden World for Best Original Score.
Plot [edit]
Newspapers item the 1948 murder of Margaret Strauss, who was stabbed during a robbery; her anklet is missing. Her husband, composer Roman Strauss, is plant guilty of the crime and condemned to expiry. Before his execution, Roman is visited past reporter Grey Bakery. Asked if he killed Margaret, Roman appears to whisper something in Baker's ear. Baker does not disclose Roman'due south reply.
40-three years after, private detective Mike Church investigates the identity of a woman who has appeared at the orphanage where he grew up. She has amnesia, cannot speak and has nightmares. Mike takes her in and asks his friend, Pete Dugan, to publish her picture and his contact info. Antiques dealer and hypnotist Franklyn Madson approaches Mike, suggesting hypnosis may help her recover her memory.
When the session is unsuccessful, Madson suggests they experiment with past life regression. Mike is skeptical, only the adult female details Margaret and Roman's lives in third person, from courtship to their wedding. When the session ends, she can speak only still has amnesia. Madson shows them Life magazine articles covering the murder. Mike and the adult female bear a hitting resemblance to Roman and Margaret. Mike visits quondam psychiatrist Cozy Carlisle, who insists they continue to meet Madson; delving into the problems between Margaret and Roman may resolve her amnesia.
Mike nicknames the woman "Grace", and falls in love with her. A human being named Doug appears and claims she is his fiancée Katherine, just Mike discovers he is lying and chases him off. Hypnotized, Grace remembers that Roman suffered from writer'south cake and is bankrupt. He believes that Margaret is flirting with Baker, whom she met on their wedding day. Margaret cannot convince him she is true-blue and catches Frankie, the son of their housekeeper Inga, looking through her jewelry box. She asks Roman to dismiss Inga just Roman refuses, saying that Inga saved his life in Nazi Germany.
Grace sees Mike standing over Margaret with scissors, and is convinced he intends to kill her. Mike insists that he would never hurt her, but when he accidentally calls her "Margaret", he agrees to let Madson regress him. During his regression, he realizes that he was Margaret and Grace was actually Roman, but is unable to tell Madson or Grace near this revelation.
Pete Dugan tells Mike that he has identified Grace as artist Amanda Abrupt. Amanda/Grace, still agape of Mike, accompanies Dugan and Madson to her flat; her artwork focuses on scissors. Madson gives her a gun to protect herself from Mike. Mike visits Gray Bakery in a nursing home and asks him well-nigh Roman's hole-and-corner, but Baker insists that Roman said nothing to him. Baker is convinced that Roman did not kill his wife and suggests Mike find Inga, who would know what happened.
Mike realizes that Madson is Frankie. He questions Inga, who explains that she declared her love to Roman but he rebuffed her. Frankie blamed Margaret for his mother'south unhappiness and killed her with scissors, then stole her anklet. Roman subsequently was found covered in his wife's blood and belongings the murder weapon.
After Roman's execution, Inga took Frankie to London where he learned almost hypnotherapy and past-life regression. After returning to LA, Frankie was convinced that Margaret's spirit would seek revenge. Seeing Amanda's photo in the paper, he knew she had returned. He hired Doug, an histrion, to split Mike and Amanda and distract Amanda while he waited to kill her. Inga apologizes for her role in Margaret'due south death, giving Mike the anklet. Subsequently Mike leaves to discover Amanda, Frankie/Madson smothers Inga with a pillow.
Mike tries to tell Amanda the truth. Terrified, she shoots him. Madson arrives and reveals that he is Frankie. Amanda tries to shoot him as well, simply the gun jams and he knocks her out. He puts the pair of scissors he used to impale Margaret in Mike'southward manus and tries to brand it look like Amanda killed him and committed suicide. Mike revives and stabs Madson in the leg with the scissors. In the ensuing struggle, Mike grabs the gun from Madson. Dugan arrives, misconstrues the scene and tackles Mike. As Madson reaches for the dropped pistol, Amanda stabs him in the back with the scissors. In a rage, Madson pulls the scissors out and charges at Mike, but he quickly positions Amanda'due south scissors sculpture so that Madson impales himself.
A closing montage shows Mike and Amanda embracing, superimposed over Margaret and Roman in happier times.
Cast [edit]
- Kenneth Branagh every bit Mike Church building/Roman Strauss
- Emma Thompson every bit Grace/Margaret Strauss
- Andy García as Gray Baker
- Derek Jacobi as Franklyn Madson
- Wayne Knight as "Piccolo" Pete Dugan
- Robin Williams as Dr. Cozy Carlisle
- Hanna Schygulla every bit Inga
- Campbell Scott as Doug
- Jo Anderson as Sister Madeleine
- Lois Hall as Sis Constance
- Richard Easton as Male parent Timothy
- Gregor Hesse as Frankie
- Obba Babatundé as Sid
- Vasek Simek as Otto Kline
- Christine Ebersole as Lydia Larson
- Raymond Cruz every bit supermarket clerk
Production [edit]
According to the director'due south commentary on the DVD, the movie was filmed entirely in color. After test screenings, it was decided to use black and white for the "by" sequences to assistance articulate up audience defoliation. The final frame, once the mystery is solved, blooms from black and white to colour.
Release [edit]
Dead Over again was released on August 23, 1991 in the United States and October 25, 1991 in the United kingdom. It was later entered into the 42nd Berlin International Motion-picture show Festival in February 1992.[iii]
Home media [edit]
The moving picture was released on DVD on June 27, 2000 through Paramount Home Entertainment. The DVD Special Features include two audio commentaries and a theatrical trailer.[4]
It was then released for the first time on Blu-ray on October 5, 2021;[5] on the film's 30th ceremony.
Reception [edit]
Critical response [edit]
Expressionless Once again was well received by about critics. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 83% based on reviews from 47 critics.[vi] On Metacritic the moving picture has a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on reviews from nineteen critics.[7] Audiences surveyed past CinemaScore gave the film a grade "A-" on scale of A to F.[8]
Chicago Sun-Times motion-picture show critic Roger Ebert gave the film a glowing four star review, drawing comparisons to the works of Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, stating, "Expressionless Again is Kenneth Branagh one time once more demonstrating that he has a natural flair for assuming theatrical gesture. If Henry V, the first film he directed and starred in, caused people to compare him to Olivier, Expressionless Once more will inspire comparisons to Welles and Hitchcock - and the Olivier of Hitchcock's Rebecca. I practice not suggest Branagh is already as bang-up a manager every bit Welles and Hitchcock, although he has a good start in that management. What I mean is that his spirit, his daring, is in the same league. He is not interested in making timid movies."[nine] James Berardinelli besides gave the film a 4 star review, praising Branagh'due south direction and all levels of the product, from the screenplay by Scott Frank to Patrick Doyle's score, stating, "...Branagh has combined all of these cinematic elements into an accomplishment that rivals Hitchcock'southward best work and stands out as i of the well-nigh intriguing and memorable thrillers of the 1990s."[10]
Peter Travers of Rolling Rock viewed the picture show negatively, praising some elements of Branagh'due south direction while criticizing the romance, saying, "In his efforts to crowd the screen with character and incident, Branagh cheats on the i element that might have given resonance to the mystery: the love story. Branagh and Thompson (married in existent life) are sublime actors, but they never develop a disarming ardor as either couple. How could they when the director is and so busy playing tricks? Expressionless Again isn't a disaster, merely a miscalculation from a prodigious talent who has forgotten that you squeeze the life out of romance when you don't give information technology infinite to breathe."[11]
Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave the picture a lukewarm review, calling it "a large, convoluted, entertainingly dizzy romantic mystery melodrama" and final, "Expressionless Once again is somewhen a lot simpler than it pretends to be. The caption of the mystery is a rather commonplace letdown, but probably aught short of mass murder could successfully meridian the baroque buildup. In this mode, also, the film is true-blue to its antecedents, while notwithstanding being a lot of fun."[12]
In 2016, Jason Bailey at Flavorwire, repeated Roger Ebert's initial directorial comparisons, writing that, "Dead Again is one of the most Hitchcockian thrillers this side of De Palma, with easily traceable influences of Olivier-fronted Rebecca (in the creepy, needy housekeeper), Psycho (the mysterious one-time mother in the next room), Dial M for Murder (the scissors as murder weapon), and Spellbound (the therapeutic elements, plus a quickie reference to Salvador Dalí, who advised on that film's dream sequences)".[13]
Box office [edit]
Dead Again grossed $3,479,395 during its opening weekend, playing on 450 screens. It eventually grossed more than than $38 million by the end of its theatrical run.[one]
Accolades [edit]
Media [edit]
Expressionless Again was ane of several influences on the 1999 conceptual album, Metropolis pt. ii: Scenes From a Retention, by the American progressive metal ring Dream Theater.[fourteen]
It was also unofficially remade into a 1998 Malayalam moving-picture show Mayilpeelikkavu
References [edit]
- ^ a b "Dead Once more (1991)". Box Part Mojo . Retrieved Baronial 25, 2019.
- ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Manner (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5
- ^ "Berlinale: 1992 Programme". berlinale.de . Retrieved May 24, 2011.
- ^ Dead Over again (1991). ASIN 6305882525.
- ^ Expressionless Again Blu-ray , retrieved Oct 13, 2021
- ^ "Dead Over again". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved Oct three, 2011.
- ^ "Expressionless Once more". Metacritic.
- ^ "Cinemascore". Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (August 23, 1991). "Dead Over again". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved August 24, 2019.
- ^ Berardinelli, James. "Dead Once more". ReelViews . Retrieved Jan 21, 2012.
- ^ Travers, Peter (Baronial 23, 1991). "Dead Again". Rolling Stone . Retrieved Jan 21, 2012.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (August 23, 1991). "Dead Again". The New York Times . Retrieved January 21, 2012.
- ^ "Second Glance: Kenneth Branagh's Twisty, Giddy 'Dead Once more'". Flavorwire. August 22, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
- ^ "Mike Portnoy.com The Official Website". www.mikeportnoy.com . Retrieved October 30, 2018.
External links [edit]
- Dead Again at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Again
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